Theatre | The Guardian: It starts off with single words being spoken in turn, like a game of association between friends, but it builds to sentences crisscrossing each other. Some are benign, funny or quotidian statements, others feature torture and incriminating violence. “Overwhelm” is what inspired the five-strong cast to devise this avant-garde experiment in polyphony and it might be the closest thing to the vocalised sound of online scrolling.
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Avant-garde, modern, and contemporary art is super interesting to me because honestly I have no idea how it sells. Maybe the point is that it doesn’t and that’s the statement but there’s a lot of contemporary art that I look at and I’m just like what is the point. This experiment is super cool to read about but it also just feels so on the nose. What does avant garde even mean? Well, I know what it means but like what is considered avant garde? I really want to pick the creator’s brain on this and see why they did this experiment and what they wanted to accomplish and what kind of impact they wanted to have on the people they presented this to. It is definitely interesting what sound design can do and how different sound elements came together to create this experiment though. Overall, it was a short but interesting read.
Wow! This is the kind of theater that really excites me. Audiences don't quite know what they're watching but yet know that they are walking away with something. The Symphony of Chaos had some overarching themes but the most prevalent I may have just been the overwhelm of the audience. Mirroring the overwhelm we experience today scrolling through the news or social media. Although it sounds like there was no clear storyline I wonder if the audience was still able to follow the progression of intensity and if it felt like there was the beginning, middle and end in the midst of the chaos. That is where these pieces can make or break. nothing infuriates me more than seeing a show that is a modge podge of scenes but in the end it feels like nothing happened. Some sort of change, however big or small, has to happen over the course of the play for it to matter. Unless of course the static nature is the point. I suppose what I'm getting on is it has to feel like someone made an intentional choice, not simply they didn't know what to do. A mix match show with a strong poignant ending can still prove to be very successful.
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